Katie Britt used decades-old example of rapes in Mexico as Republican attack on Biden border policy

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
Associated Press

The Republican senator who gave the party’s response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address used a harrowing account of a young woman’s sexual abuse to attack his border policies, but the rapes did not happen in the U.S. or during the Biden administration. Alabama Sen. Katie Britt in the GOP response criticized current immigration policies, describing how she had met a woman at the U.S.-Mexico border who was raped thousands of times in a sex trafficking operation run by cartels, starting at age 12. Documents show the victim has previously spoken publicly about the abuse happening, but in Mexico from 2004 to 2008.